RDM Tools

Description:
Online and open source tool to evaluate the expenses for data storage that you might encounter during your research project, eg. Active Storage, ELN, Database, Data Repository, Collaborative Repository.

From:
EPFL

Link:
Cost Calculator

Tags: Guide/Helping tool

Description:
The Green Algorithms project aims at promoting more environmentally sustainable computational science. This calculator allows researchers to estimate the carbon footprint of their projects.

From:
Loïc Lannelongue and Michael Inouye

Link:
Green Algorithms Calculator

Tags: Guide/Helping tool

Description:
Checklist with guiding questions to find out how to improve your DMP, or to self-evaluate your Research Data Management (RDM) practices.

From:
DLCM

Link:
DMP checklist

Tags: Guide/Helping tool

Description:
The European Commission generally publishes many deliverables for the projects funded under the ERC/Horizon 2020/Horizon Europe programs in the CORDIS database. This includes many data management plans that can be used for future reference or inspiration.

From:
European Commission

Link:
ERC/Horizon data management plans

Tags: Ressources

Description:
At this point, the Swiss National Science Foundation doesn’t publish the submitted data management plans. For SNSF candidates, we have prepared a few representative mock-up documents in various EPFL research fields.

From:
EPFL

Link:
SNSF DMP mockups par discipline

Tags: Ressources

Description:
The GitLab Community Edition of the EPFL allows to use the GitLab functionalities of version control, etc., within the comfort of the EPFL access and storage, as the main open alternative to GitHub.

From:
EPFL

Link:
GitLab EPFL

Tags: Application

Description:
Commercial platform for code co-creation, curation, sharing and testing. It allows code version control and easy collaboration, but the storage is not on local servers and cannot be self-hosted. You should never store legally protected data on it, which would subject to incurring penalties. Via the GitHub API, GitHub itself suggests to use Zenodo to make your code citable and obtain a DOI.

From:
GitHub

Link:
GitHub

Tags: Application

Description:
Especially conceived around chemistry needs, the it is an Electronic Laboratory Notebook as well as a repository for spectroscopic data, with some helpful tools.

From:
EPFL

Link:
ELN EPFL

Tags: Application

Description:
An EPFL spinoff offering a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), now owned by Genohm SA. Can be locally hosted on EPFL servers. It offers ELN-like functionalities (file organization by projects, experiments, notes, etc.) plus samples management, and advanced functions especially useful for life-science projects.

From:
Agilent

Link:
SLIMS

Tags: Application

Description:
A matrix table, comparing and contrasting various Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) options, with the goal to aid researchers in the process of identifying appropriate solutions. Based on a survey of 26 vendors, this ELN comparison matrix serves as an educational tool and decision map.

From:
EPFL

Link:
ELN Comparison Matrix

Tags: Ressources

Description:
A combined data management platform for (i) inventory management; (ii) electronic lab notebook and (ii) research data management. Developed by the ETHZ and available Open Source.

From:
ETH

Link:
openBIS

Tags: Application

Description:
Cloud solution for Swiss universities with 100 GB online storage per user (standard), institutional login, real-time collaboration on documents. Data are stored and processed in Switzerland. The multi-platform client uses end-to-end encryption, making it easy to comply with Federal Act on Data Protection and the official secrecy laws. (Note: transfer encryption is not file encryption. Users have to encrypt the data themselves as needed.)

From:
Switch

Link:
SWITCHDrive

Tags: Application

Description:
A useful database of ELN solutions that can be used to compare functionalities, software providers, pricing models, etc.

From:
EPFL

Link:
ELN Finder

Tags: Ressources

Description:
REDCap is a secure web platform for building and managing online databases and surveys. EPFL’s instance is suitable for the collection of sensitive data, but remember that If you are collecting data for the purposes of human subjects research, review and approval of the project is required by the Human Research Ethics Committee.

From:
Unknown

Link:
Redcap

Tags: Application

Description:
EPFL’s Object Storage service is a centralized platform for large, unstructured data using the S3 protocol. It is suitable for large files that do not need to be accessed frequently, and requires dedicated tools to access the files. Access is limited to the EPFL network (or VPN).

From:
EPFL

Link:
DSI Object Storage

Tags: Infrastructure

Description:
The Research Computing Platform – RCP – provides IT infrastructure and services to the whole of EPFL scientific community, namely storage, GPUs, server resources, storage, and many more.

From:
EPFL

Link:
RCP

Tags: Infrastructure

Description:
The EOSC Services page presents the main services available through the European Open Science Cloud EU Node, including secure file sharing, collaborative document editing, data transfer, reproducible experiment tools, and cloud application deployment. Access requires institutional login and adherence to the User Access Policy.

From:
EOSC

Link:
EOSC services marketplace

Tags: Ressources

Description:
Software platform that enables reproducible and collaborative data science, with reproducible analyses and automatic generation of Knowledge Graphs.

From:
Swiss Data Science Center

Link:
Renku

Tags: Application

Description:
An EPFL-BIOP image data management system designed for the EPFL Microscopy community to support the vast amount of imaging data. It provides easy ways of storing, accessing, displaying and working with large amount of imaging data.

From:
University of Dundee & Open Microscopy Environment

Link:
OMERO

Tags: Application

Description:
Automated Interactive Infrastructure and Database, especially useful for Computational Science. It is developed publicly on the aiida-core GitHub repository.

From:
Aiida

Link:
AiiDA

Tags: Application

Description:
Using the Amnesia software, you can apply a toolbox of masking methods on your primary data that contains personal information of human subjects, and measure the anonymity of the output for your subjects.

From:
OpenAIRE

Link:
Amnesia

Tags: Application

Description:
Cross-platform software for backups, available to EPFL’s staff, and supported by the EPFL IT for central backup of end-users devices. It allows the automatic backup of EPFL users’ computers: the installed agent sends encrypted data to onsite servers. Users can restore data at any time. Contact your Faculty IT or [email protected].

From:
Atempo

Link:
Atempo Lina

Tags: Application

Description:
Open-source utility for synchronizing and transferring files across computer systems with minimal network usage. Also used by SCITAS.

From:
Rsync

Link:
rsync

Tags: Application

Description:
From Wikipedia, an exhaustive comparisation of file synchronization software, classified by language programming, platforms, licenses and much more

From:
Wikipedia

Link:
Sync comparison table

Tags: Ressources

Description:
Datasets and code underlying scientific publications may be archived in EPFL’s Academic Output Archive (ACOUA) for secure long-term storage and active preservation. The ACOUA team assists researchers in the preparation of the data, archive it into the system, and process the requests for copies according to the access rights defined by the data creators. Periodic reports of the integrity audits and curation actions will be provided.

From:
EPFL

Link:
ACOUA

Tags: Application

Description:
EPFL’s high performance computing service manages a tape backup system for data within their computer clusters.

From:
EPFL

Link:
SCITAS User Documentation – Archiving

Tags: Infrastructure

Description:
Repository operated by CERN covering all scientific disciplines. It offers free data submission for any research as long as it is openly published. In addition, DOI are systematically attributed to records, making them cleanly citable. Another notable feature is its integration with GitHub, enabling to capture, preserve and cite Git repositories.

From:
CERN

Link:
Zenodo

Tags: Data Repository

Description:
If you publish your datasets or other research material on Zenodo as an EPFL member, we invite you to associate them with the EPFL Zenodo Community. The Library RDM team will review the dataset according to the Curation Policy, enabling better visibility and facilitating the dissemination of information.

From:
EPFL-Zenodo

Link:
EPFL Community on Zenodo

Tags: Data Repository

Description:
Web platform and data repository, designed to assist Materials Scientists in the life-cycle of their computational projects. Openly developed on the materialscloud-org GitHub repository.

From:
MaterialsCloud.org

Link:
Materials Cloud

Tags: Data Repository

Description:
Curated general-purpose scientific data repository. All records in Dryad are associated to published articles, and a data publishing fee is requested for deposition. DOI are attributed systematically.

From:
Dryad

Link:
Dryad

Tags: Data Repository

Description:
Platform offering data deposition and access for all disciplines, and attributes systematically DOI. Unlike Zenodo and Dryad, Figshare is a commercial repository, belonging to Macmillan Publishers.

From:
Macmillan Publishers

Link:
Figshare

Tags: Data Repository

Description:
The global search engine for data platforms. It covers research data repositories and platforms from different academic disciplines and includes repositories that enable permanent storage, access to data sets to researchers, funding bodies, publishers, and scholarly institutions.

From:
DataCite

Link:
re3data

Tags: Ressources

Description:
Virtual assistant and decision tree that allows researchers to get help in the most relevant legal issues in research data management. Developed by the collaboration of USI, eLab, CCdigitallaw and UNINE, it is open source. You can navigate copyright or data protection issues, and obtain information, guidance, or useful links.

From:
USI, eLab, CCdigitallaw, UNINE

Link:
DMLawTool

Tags: Guide/Helping tool

Description:
You can search, browse, or even submit software licenses: everything is explained in plain english. It allows to get information on licenses for datasets and especially code, thus helping to decide if some previous work can be reused or reshared, or to choose a license for publishing code and data.

From:
TLDRLegal

Link:
TLDRLegal

Tags: Guide/Helping tool

Description:
Simple chooser to help determine which Creative Commons License is right for your data.

From:
Creatrive Commons

Link:
CC License chooser

Tags: Guide/Helping tool

Description:
An example file that demonstrates the metadata format that can be included in a Github repository. The Zenodo-Github integration will automatically use the content of the file to describe the resulting object on Zenodo, making it easier to find and to understand on that platform.

From:
GitHub

Link:
JSON Zenodo-Github

Tags: Data Repository

Description:
Looking for data to re-use? The Bielenfeld Academic Search Engine aggregates detailed records from thousands of academic open repositories, including publications and dataset references. The provided link includes a specific filter for dataset records.

From:
Bielefeld University

Link:
BASE

Tags: Data Repository

Description:
Similar to Google Scholar, Google Dataset Search can locate governmental, scientific and commercial data hosted on thousands of web sites based on keywords.

From:
Google

Link:
Google Dataset Search

Tags: Ressources

Description:
Platform for collaboratively developing, storing, organizing and searching reproducible methods, procedures, manuals, protocols, etc. and also publishing them with a DOI.

From:
Springer Nature

Link:
protocols.io

Tags: Ressources

Description:
These documents guide researchers in writing a README file for their datasets (data and code), through best practices and an example template. The template is also available as a separate .txt file.

From:
EPFL Library

Link:
README File for Datasets

Tags: Guide/Helping tool

Description:
We propose a naming convention for research data files and folders, intended as a practical tool to achieve reasonable quality without using too much time designing one’s own. It is by no means mandatory and may be adapted freely if needed.

From:
EPFL Library

Link:
Simple Naming Convention

Tags: Guide/Helping tool

Description:
Software documentation is an important part of development, for the benefit of programmers, IT specialists and end users. Specialized programming tools can faciliate the production of documentation for multiple media and audiences directly from the code base.

From:
Wikipedia

Link:
Code Documentation Generators

Tags: Guide/Helping tool

Description:
It is usually necessary to mask some of your data if it contains protected information (personal, sensitive or otherwise confidential). In this fast guide, we present the main concepts and a selection of tools for this purpose.

From:
Bielefeld University

Link:
Database documentation tools

Tags: Guide/Helping tool

Description:
This is a single HTML form which can be used to generate DataCite metadata for datasets and other digital objects. It does not require any installation, extra libraries, or an application server, just download and go. Metadata is generated by populating text boxes and selecting values from drop-downs, and can then be saved to a file. The application can also read existing Datacite XML files.

From:
EPFL Library

Link:
Datacite Metadata Generator

Tags: Application

Description:
Established in 2003, the Data Documentation Initiative Alliance (DDI Alliance) is an international collaboration dedicated to establishing metadata standards and semantic products for describing social science data, data covering human activity, and other data based on observational methods. It offers a suite of free standards and tools that document and manage different stages of the research data lifecycle, including conceptualization, collection, process, distribution, discovery, and archiving.

From:
DDI Alliance

Link:
DDI products

Tags: Guide/Helping tool